Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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