From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.