A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

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.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.