After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.