How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!