The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.