"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy – to be someone who is brisk about their food and work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the no…"

"The more one thinks of them, the more one feels that the most beautiful things in the world are those which are most absurd."

"The more people are, the less they are themselves."

"The present age is essentially a sensible, reflecting age, which knows how to do everything, but which does nothing."

"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply: Create silence! Bring men to silence!"