Who taught you all this, doctor?
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of...
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem, ruse, illegal method, to be determined to concea...
I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is...
Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, and...
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them,...
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.