How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

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

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

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.