Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.
The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter’s logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.
He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly.
I don’t think badly of people. I like everybody, and I’m sorry for everybody.
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There’s no girl who hasn’t gone through that. And it’s all so unimportant!
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me.
And where love ends, hate begins.
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.
God gave the day, God gave the strength.
There is only one time that is important – NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.
I don’t count life as life without love.