What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

What labels me, negates me.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.