To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

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

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.