Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Speech is civilization itself.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

It could become much worse.

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

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.