Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

Only those live who do good.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.