Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper...there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people...but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can...
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for? she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost. And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face. What am I c...
It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!
I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.
My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider r...
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking, no positive indication, yet since...
Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.
Wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort, is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. She's flattering me, thought the princess, and she turned away and went on reading. Julie, however, was not flattering he...
All the methods of appointing authorities that have been tried, divine right, and election, and heredity, and balloting, and assemblies and parliaments and senate—all have proved ineffectual. Everyone...
Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.