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

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

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

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

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

An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

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