Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.