The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

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

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.