To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.