A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. |
A harmful truth is better than a useful lie |
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own |
A man's dying is more the survivors affair than his own |
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. |
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. |
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. |
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. |
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. |
Beauty can pierce one like a pain. |
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. |
Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote. |
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. |
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer |
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate |