The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

He who integrates is lost.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject