There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.