Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

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.