All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or pretend to approve of atrophied social, political, educational, and religious institutions, instead of resolutely combating them.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.