We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
As the fathers live, so the children play.
History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
Still, everybody wants to eat.
You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you’ve just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
If someone asked you, why not help him out?
The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.
Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
Which of us can control his feelings?
When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
Not all of me shall die.
We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.