We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.