The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

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.