Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.