A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd. |
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. |
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. |
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals. |
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. |
Be that self which one truly is. |
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances. |
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. |
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it |
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. |
Don't forget to love yourself. |
Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy. |
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. |
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. |