In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.