“Neşe ile ızdırapla, Düşünce ile dolu iken, Tükenmez ezalar içinde, Ümitler, tereddütler geçirirken Kederler içinde yoğurulurken Mesut olan, Ancak seven ruhtur.”

“Uzaklar yaklaşınca, özlediğimiz yere ulaşınca görürüz ki hiçbir şey değişmemiştir. Kendimizi yine o yoksulluğumuzun dar çerçevesi içinde buluruz. Bu böyle sürüp gider ve ruhumuz hep elinden kaçan mutluluğun ardından göğüs geçirip durur.”

“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”

“Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?”

“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.”

“If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.”

“God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.”