It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

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

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

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.