Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

This then is the age of reason.

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.