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

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

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.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

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

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.