Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.