“It does not make such a difference whether you are simply mute or employ no art for speaking. For it is not feasible that you can express what you think as it should be understood unless you acquire and strengthen the ability to speak by art.”

“Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.”

“What do you believe was on the mind of the ancient Romans that they called the arts of speaking humanity?”

“Helmut Schmidt continues to speak of a sense of duty, predictability, feasibility, firmness […] These are secondary virtues. Simply put precise:.. So you can also run a concentration camp with them.”

“Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.”

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”

“'BUT science and art! You are denying science and art: that is you are denying that by which humanity lives.' People constantly make this rejoinder to me, and they employ: this method in order to reject my arguments without examination. 'He rejects science and art, he wishes man to revert to a state of savagery - why listen to him or discuss with him?' But this is unjust. Not only do I not repudiate science, that is, the reasonable activity of humanity, and art - the expression of that reasonable activity - but it is just on behalf of that reasonable activity and its expression that I speak, only that It may be possible for mankind to escape from the savage state into which it is rapidly lapsing thanks to the false teaching of our time. It is only on that account that I speak as I do.”

“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.”

“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?”