Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.