“The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.”
“Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.”
“Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.”
“You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.”
“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
“We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he canplay Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in themorning.”