We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

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

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.