It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Language was invented to ask questions.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.