To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Be that self which one truly is.

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

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."