Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.