Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

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

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value, suggests the simple question: Could such and such a fact, as it is narrated here, have been photographed?

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.