The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Every man needs a place to go to.

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.