Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.