Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them..

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people..

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done ….

It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying..

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth….

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in wh….

If life were organized, there would be no need for art..

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of de….

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather ….

Understand that the only possession of any value is life..

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have b….

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us..

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to su….

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love..

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else..

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to fee….

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain..

The wise man is astonished by anything..

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open..

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not mak….

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty..