All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.