Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring