There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.