Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.