Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.