A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.