 A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. |
| Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. |
| Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. |
| Speech is civilization itself. |
| Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. |
| Psycho-analyses, how disgusting. |
| Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. |
| What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. |
| Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. |
| Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. |
| Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you. |
| Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. |
| For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. |
| The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. |
| A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. |
| I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had. |
| One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator. |
| For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. |
| For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. |
| If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. |
