If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.