One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.

Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

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.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.