“While you, I suppose, are Russophil out of humanistic affinity with Caesaro-papism.”

“Democracy, my friend, has more to hope from the Kremlin than she has from the Hofburg; and it is disgraceful for the country of Luther and Gutenberg⁠—”

“It is probably not only disgraceful, but stupid into the bargain. But even this stupidity is an instrument of fate⁠—”

“Oh, spare me your talk about fate! Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate!”

“One always wills one’s fate. Capitalistic Europe is willing hers.”

“One believes in the coming of war if one does not sufficiently abhor it.”

“Your abhorrence of war is logically disjointed if you do not make the State itself your point of departure.”