Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.