Where there are two people, there is untruth.

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.