A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.