By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Prison house for the soul

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.