A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.