7 Quotes by Walther Rathenau

Je problematischer der Charakter, desto problemloser erscheint ihm die Welt.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

Truth is inner harmony.

A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.

There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.