Character: Ulrich

A man's beauty is only a secondary sexual characteristic, a man excites primarily with the hope of his success.

History has never developed through such a systematic connection of ideas, which is possible only in the mind of an individual person, but was always done so wastefully and devastatingly, as if it had been thrown onto the table by the fist of some rude gambler.

Perhaps even today our morality is falling into two parts. I could also say: to mathematics and mysticism. For practical land reclamation and adventures with the unknown.

I do not believe that good is holding back evil.

I believe that nothing is in balance, that everything wants to rise with the help of something else.

Nothing could be gained by indulging in illusions that did not stand up to scrutiny.

A kind person does not at all make the world kind, he does not have any influence on it at all, he only separates from it!

We must first of all abandon the approach to events from the standpoint of personal self-interest. We must consider them not so much as something personal and real, but as something general and abstract.

The path of history is not like the path of a billiard ball, which, having received a blow, rolls in a certain direction, but is similar to the path of clouds, to the path of a man wandering the streets, distracted by some shadow, now by a group of people, now by a strangely broken line of houses and eventually ending up in a place that he did not know at all and did not want to reach.