But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

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

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.