The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth?