"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
"Art is the proper task of life."
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"