Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it..

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone..

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die..

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing into….

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast..

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission..

No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be ….

You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone dec….

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness..

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth..

As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last for….

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible.

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child….

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and for….

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world..

a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful..

At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of ….

In the beginning was the myth..

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with ….

Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, ….