Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture..

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find..

Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terr….

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; hav….

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back..

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more….

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously..

There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a pe….

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go..

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow..

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is tra….

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers..

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest..

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music..

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other..

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and….

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother..

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding..

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me..

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why..

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning..