“At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered.”

“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices Ihad decided upon, there is always left a trace of envyfor those who have triumphed in the melancholystruggle for literary supremacy”

“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.”

“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.”

“Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of thesinful.”

“Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”

“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of h...”

“Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhrt mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.”