I Believe That The Madness

I Suggest You To Do War But Never Love Because In War Either You Live Or You Die. But In Love Neither You Live Nor You Die.

By Helping To Raise Man Above The Level Of Bestial Vegetation, Faith Contributes In Reality To The Securing And Safeguarding Of His Existence. Take Away From Present-day Mankind Its Education-based, Religious-dogmatic Principles- Or, Practically Speaking, Ethical-moral Principles- By Abolishing This Religious Education, But Without Replacing It By An Equivalent, And The Result Will Be A Grave Shock To The Foundations Of Their Existence.

I Was Not In Agreement With The Sharp Anti-semitic Tone, But From Time To Time I Read Arguments Which Gave Me Some Food For Thought. At All Events, These Occasions Slowly Made Me Acquainted With The Man And The Movement, Which In Those Days Guided Vienna's Destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger And The Christian Social Party.

No More Than A Famous Master Can Be Replaced And Another Take Over The Completion Of The Half-finished Painting He Has Left Behind Can The Great Poet And Thinker, The Great Statesman And The Great Soldier, Be Replaced. For Their Activity Lies Always In The Province Of Art. It Is Not Mechanically Trained But Inborn By God's Grace.

I Have Been Europe's Last Hope. She Proved Incapable Of Refashioning Herself By Means Of Voluntary Reform. She Showed Herself Impervious To Charm And Persuasion. To Take Her I Had To Use Violence. (26th February)