Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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.
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Don't forget to love yourself.
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
