We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
If you want to be happy, be.
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
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.