One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.