Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.