What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.