Society and the World

And the wind shall say: ‘Here were decent godless people:

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

The last temptation is the greatest treason:

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the

In the room the women come and go

Let us go then, you and I,

Speech impelled us

Human kind

Success is relative:

The dead level of provincial existence.

Debasing the moral currency.

A woman can hardly ever choose … she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

A woman can hardly ever choose … she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

The grand aim of all science [is] to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.