“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.