The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.