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

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.