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

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

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

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

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

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

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

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

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

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...

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry....

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious...

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

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

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.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature,...

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...

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell...

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

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.

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that...

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that...