What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

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

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Optimism is cowardice.

The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.

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