..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.