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 something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.