He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.