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

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.