One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.