Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.