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.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

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