Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

Money is coined liberty.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty