In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

And where love ends, hate begins

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.