 Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. |
| The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. |
| Once you label me you negate me. |
| There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. |
| There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. |
| The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. |
| If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. |
| It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. |
| Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. |
| The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. |
| Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. |
| Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. |
| Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. |
| I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. |
| Don't forget to love yourself. |
| Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. |
| Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. |
