It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.