Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window.
Let us be servants in order to be leaders.
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.
I am too young and I’ve loved you too much.
Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another’s sin. There is no isolated sin.
I want to suffer so that I may love.
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.