Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.