The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.