What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

The key of joy is disobedience.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

God, I'm glad I'm not me.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.