Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart’s preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

It takes a fool to rush off to war!