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

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A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple...

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare...

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and...

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and...

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

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

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

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

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

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

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

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness,...

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy,...