Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

Take it and return it: the kiss of love.