Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.