Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.
Courage. I know now that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of a great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Can’t trust a man with no code.
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.[Die Lüge ist Wegwerfung und gleichsam Vernichtung seiner Menschenwürde.]
But what after all are man’s truths? They are his irrefutable errors.
But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is that of knowing whether two and two do make four.
But a man’s beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman’s face?
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Better to die a man than live as a monster.
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man—the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
