Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.