I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.