All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.