Solo colui che riesce a mantenere la propria libertà rispetto a tutto e a tutti, conserva e moltiplica la libertà sulla terra.
Sarılabilecekleri herhangi bir şeyin olduğu hissetmek yalnızlar için, kendi içine hapsolmuş insanlar için ne mucizevi bir şeydi.
Sabahtan geceye kadar bir şeyler beklenir, ancak hiçbir şey olmaz. Beklenir durulur. Hiçbir şey olmaz. Beklenir, beklenir, beklenir; düşünülür, düşünülür, şakaklar ağrıyana kadar düşünülür. Hiçbir şey...
Poverty was crushing all the feeling they had. It was intolerable to be together this way, and yet they tolerated it.
Pity, like morphine, does the sick good only at first. It is a means of helping them to feel better, but if you don't get the dose right and know where to stop it becomes a murderous poison.
Pero el tiempo es un aliado oportunista a incierto; se colocó siempre en el bando de los fuertes y deja despreciativamente en el atolladero al que confía en él sin moverse,
Pero aun las ideas, por más insustanciales que parezcan, necesitan un punto de apoyo, de lo contrario empiezan a girar insensatas en derredor de sí mismas; ellas tampoco soportan la nada. De la mañana...
Only he knows that no task on earth is more burdensome and difficult than to maintain one’s intellectual and moral independence and preserve it unsullied through a mass cataclysm.
One must seek another certitude beyond the world, beyond the homeland; one must refuse to join the chorus of the demoniacal and create one’s own homeland, one’s own world, outside the present time.
No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready...
Neque turpis mors forti viro potest accedere. Para las almas fuertes no hay muerte ignominiosa.
Nationalism emerged to agitate the world only after the war, and the first visible phenomenon which this intellectual epidemic of our century brought about was xenophobia; morbid dislike of the foreig...
Montaigne’s greatest pleasure is in the search, not the discovery.
Madness, he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again! War once again, war that had so recently shattered his whole life? With a strange shud...
Life is servitude if we lack the freedom to die.
Karşı çıkmamın nedeni, orada yine tanıdık insanlarla bir arada olmak, yine nezaketen bazı şeyler yapmak ve sosyal davranmak zorunda kalmaktı. Oysa benim kendi başıma kalmaktan başka bir isteğim yoktu,...
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.
In the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light, and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives.
In the last analysis it seems likely that they were wiser than I, all those friends in Vienna, because they suffered everything only when it really happened, whereas I had already suffered the disaste...
If today I were to counsel a young writer who is still unsure of his way, I would try to persuade him first to adapt or translate a sizable work. In all sacrificing service there is more assurance for...