the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage..

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age..

... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods..

I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another, where all a….

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be don….

And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all o….

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything tha….

Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead t….

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with ….

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring samenes….

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?.

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I ….

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality..

To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where a….

We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul..

The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be ar….

Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that th….

... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory….