Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.