The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.