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

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

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

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

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.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....