In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

Friendship is identification and difference

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.