For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.