There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.