A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.