Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.