[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.