Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.