We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.