Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
What is uttered is finished and done with.
I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Literature... Is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
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.
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Speech is civilization itself.
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
What the collective age wants, allows and approves, is the perpetual holiday from the self.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
