The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

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.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.