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

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.