Why nowadays there’s a new fashion every day.
God is the same everywhere.
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...
I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.
I’m getting old, that’s the thing! What’s in me now won’t be there anymore.
And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death – but it’s more peaceful.
Love those you hate you.
Without the support from religion – remember, we talked about it – no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
I often think how unfairly life’s good fortune is sometimes distributed.
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...
From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.