Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

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

The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.