We can destroy only as creators

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Respectability offends my taste.