Are you descendants of Goethe ore from Attila? Are you waging war against the armies or against humanity? Kill the people but respect their works! - Romain Rolland

The true man of culture is not he who makes of himself and his ideal the center of the universe, but who looking around him sees, as in the sky the stream of the Milky Way, thousands of little flames which flow with his own; and who seeks neither to absorb them nor to impose upon them his own course, but to give himself the religious persuasion of their value and of the common source of the fire by which all alike are fed.

Колко кухо отеква красотата на света, когато по нея почуква с пръсти скръбта!

کریستف دید که زندگی نبردی بی‌آشتی و بی‌امان است که در آن کسی که می‌خواهد مردی شود که شایسته‌ی این نام باشد باید پیوسته با لشکرهای دشمن نامرئی بجنگد: با نیروهای کشنده‌ی طبیعت، با آرزوهای آلوده، با اندیشه‌های تیره که انسان را خائنانه به جائی می‌کشانند که خود را پست و معدوم سازد.