“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”
― A Confession
― A Confession
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.”
― Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
― Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
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