Speech is civilization itself.

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

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

Speech is civilization itself.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.