This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

Life has gone by as if I never lived

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

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.