Only the man who remains free from all and everything augments and sustains freedom on this earth.
Moi qui pour mon malheur ai toujours eu une curiosité passionnée pour les choses de l'esprit...
Los libros sólo se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y así defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvido
Lorsque j'ouvrais les yeux dans l'obscurité et que je te sentais contre mon flanc, je m'étonnais qu'il n'y eût pas d'étoiles au-dessus de moi, tant le ciel semblait présent.
Live and let live was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives, and it maintained itself throughout all classes.
La plus volontaire mort c’est la plus belle.
La plus grande chose du monde c’est de savoir être à soi.
Korku cezadan çok daha beterdir, çünkü ceza bellidir, ağır da olsa, hafif de, hiçbir zaman belirsizliğin dehşeti kadar, o sonsuz gerilimin ürkünçlüğü kadar kötü değildir.
In seinem Schlösschen, wo er ab 1920 mit seiner Frau und deren zwei Töchtern aus erster Ehe lebt, entstehen Novellen, Dramen und Erzählungen.
Hábeis e frios calculadores podem vir demonstrar, ainda e sempre, que o sonho do erasmismo é impossível, e os factos poderão parecer dar-lhes razão; isso nao impede que sejam sempre necessários os ser...
He makes it his task to be wholly sincere with himself, and he notes this definition of wisdom which he finds in Pindar: True being is the beginning of a great virtue.
For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so th...
Er wußte, daß er die Reibfläche von Menschen brauchte, um seine Talente, die Wärme und den Übermut seines Herzens aufflammen zu lassen, und er allein frostig und sich selber nutzlos war, wie ein Zündh...
El erasmista, el que cree en la humanidad, tiene que fomentar en su círculo vital más próximo la unión y no la división, no puede reforzar lo parcial en su parcialidad ni lo hostil en su
Einzig das Unmeßbare, das Unfaßbare erschreckt uns, alles Begrenzte dagegen, alles Bestimmte fordert zur Probe heraus und wird zum Maß unserer Kraft.
C'était la première fois que je souffrais de ce sort de n'être pas reconnue de toi, ce sort qu'une vie entière j'ai subi et avec lequel je m'en vais; inconnue, toujours inconnue à tes yeux
But you smiled at me and said consolingly, People come back again.Yes I said, they come back, but then they have forgotten.There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way I said th...
But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had lost thereby.
Bize hiçbir şey yapılmadı, yalnızca tam bir hiçliğin içine koyulduk, çünkü bilindiği gibi dünyada hiçbir şey insan ruhunu hiçlik kadar baskı altına alamaz.
Balzac'ın bir kahramanı dünyayı boyunduruk altına almak ister, Dostoyevski'nin kahramanı ise onu alt etmek. Her ikisinde de günlük yaşamın üstüne çıkma gayreti, sonsuzluğa bir yönelim vardır. Dickens...
