Top 6 Max Nordau Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.”

— Max Nordau

2. “Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.”

— Max Nordau

3. “Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists.”

— Max Nordau

4. “The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.”

— Max Nordau

5. “The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply its own needs.”

— Max Nordau

6. “It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.”

— Max Nordau

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