We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

We can destroy only as creators

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!