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

"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…"

"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…"

"Bildung ist die Fähigkeit Wesentliches von Unwesentlichem zu unterscheiden, und jenes ernst zu nehmen."

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

"The strongest argument for the truth of Christianity is the true Christian, the man filled with the Spirit of Christ.…"

"What Christianity in her antagonism with every form of unbelief most needs is holy living."