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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.
Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.