In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

Patriotism ruins history.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.