One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

One lives but once in the world.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

The history of mankind is his character.

No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.