"Qui a froid souffle le feu."

"Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange g…"

"In what time does man live? The thinkers have always known that he does not live in any time at all. The immortality …"

"Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibl…"

"Ich packe meine Bibliothek aus ("Unpacking my library", 1931), p. 2"

"Nothing is so hateful to the philistine as the "dreams of his youth." ... For what appeared to him in his dreams was …"

"I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain."

"Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. …"

"Jede Äußerung menschlichen Geisteslebens kann als eine Art der Sprache aufgefaßt werden, und diese Auffassung erschli…"

"… für den wahren Sammler ist die Erwerbung eines alten Buches dessen Wiedergeburt. … Die alte Welt erneuern – das ist…"