Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Money is coined liberty.
Since I wasn’t consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it’s all right if he’s bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
To think too much is a disease.
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: “Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”
I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever...
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.
Make us your slaves, but feed us.
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we’d better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
I don’t need money, or, better, it’s not money that I need; it’s not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!
If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
Hold your tongue; you won’t understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.