One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...