How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.