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

The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.