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

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.