First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.