Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?