The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

What labels me, negates me.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.