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

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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...

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is civilization itself.

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

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

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over...

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over...

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

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.

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

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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without...

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...

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

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

Everything is politics.

Everything is politics.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

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

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

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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

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

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.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an...

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.