Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.