Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who have kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.