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

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

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.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.