The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.