Controversial Sayings

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do.

They ought to make good and skilled servants, for they repeat very quickly whatever we say to them.

The church is the true compass by which we must guide ourselves in these heathen lands.

The natives are a cowardly and treacherous people, wherefore we must always be on our guard.

Africa proper has no history as it is not a historical continent and has nothing to show in the way of development.

The joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities was so excessive that I sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means.

The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour against the metropolis.