A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. |
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. |
And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle. |
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. |
Consciousness is a disease |
Consciousness is a disease |
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. |
El que tiene fe en sí mismo no necesita que los demás crean en él. |
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith |
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth of eternal despair, out of which springs hope and consolation. |
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems. |
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. |
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory |
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. |
It is sad not to be loved but it is much sadder not to be able to love |