I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands, millions, had so understood the meaning of life that they were able both to live and to die. All these people were well acquainted with the meaning of life and death, quietly labored, endured privation and suffering, lived and died, and saw in all this, not a vain, but a good thing.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.