They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

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.

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.