I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

No victor believes in chance.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.