Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

The only true voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Writing is a way of life, a way of being in the world.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.