"In his depracation of the political and economic man, of the common man of everyday life, and of the political cultur…"

"What was most repulsive at the meetings was the stench of the guild, which assailed me everywhere: intellectual prole…"

"Es ist das höchste Glück des Menschen, anzubeten, oder, milder gesagt, andre Menschen über sich anzuerkennen, die er …"

"Our speech has ceased to speak, it shouts; it says cute, not beautiful, colossal, not great; it cannot find the right…"

"In many ways, Lagarde with his tempestuous moods had remained a child, wounded, frightened, craving the affectionate …"

"Lagarde … was more closely attuned to the sufferings of other men and the shortcomings of his culture than those heal…"

"Lagarde … sneered at the real, the practical world; he distrusted positivism, loathed materialism, and mocked progress."

"Die Kirche Roms hat durch die Einführung des Weihnachtsfestes das Christenthum gerettet."

"Wer Dankbarkeit fordert, verdient keine."

""Dass es uns lange gut geht, stösst gegen die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. Wir werden gar nicht geboren zum Glück. Da…"