While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.