There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.