Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.