If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.