“There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!”
“Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.”
“No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.”
“It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and beast live; you must also have and acquire the will to ignorance. You need to grasp that without this kind of ignorance life itself would be impossible, that it is a condition under which alone the living thing can preserve itself and prosper: a great, firm dome of ignorance must encompass you.”
“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”
“Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.”