It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.