Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

Your friend will argue with you.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.