He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.

Anyone can bear a catastrophe, once it has occurred, by at least seeming to avoid it through keeping busy, no matter which work routine he forces himself into.

One actually finds most people uninteresting, I thought, all the time – almost all the people we meet are uninteresting, having nothing to offer us but their collective mediocrity and their collective imbecility, with which they bore us on every occasion, and so naturally we have no time for them.

I don’t belong to the masses, I’ve been against the masses all my life, and I’m not in favour of dogs.

We see so much sadness if we care to look.

She herself had never had enough money and never enough time and hadn’t even been unhappy once, in contrast to those she called refined gentlemen, who always had enough money and enough time and constantly talked about their unhappiness. She.

We may know for decades that someone close to us is a ridiculous person, but it’s only after a lapse of decades that we suddenly see it.

All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn’t open our eyes. What.

But of course the world consists only of absurd ideas.

But we don’t always have to be studying something, I thought, it’s perfectly enough merely to think, to do nothing but think and give our thoughts free rein. To give in to our philosophical worldview, simply submit to our philosophical worldview, but that’s the hardest thing, I thought. Wertheimer.