You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books

Vocation is the spine of life.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.