There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.