Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.