Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.