The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.