The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.
Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.
Religion is a collective insanity.
Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.