I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.