Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

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.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.