To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.