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

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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...

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.

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...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not...

It could become much worse.

It could become much worse.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs,...

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...

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

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

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...

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

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

What is uttered is finished and done with.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

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.

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...