For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.