You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

The dialectical unity of Love and Strife is the eternal driving force in the cosmos.

I don't want to be a legend. I want to be a memory in people's hearts.