Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Most people are other people.