Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.