They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...
Love life more than the meaning of it?
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness.
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
It’s the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.
Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
I utter what you would not dare think.
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.
We are all happy if we but knew it.
Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.
We don’t understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.