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

"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?"

"The present age is an age of dissolution, an age of disintegration, an age of destruction."

"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 crowd is not merely untruth, but also, and even more so, an un-Christian concept."