Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.