I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

Cluster together like stars!