Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.