Being eternally at a point where two paths fork!
All of life’s unpleasant experiences – when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue – should be regarded as mere external accidents which can’t affect...
لقد اعتدت أن أحلم كثيرا.. لقد تعبتُ من الحلم..لكنني لم أتعب..لا أحد يتعب من الحلم ..لإن أن تحلم ..هو أن تنسى..و النسيان لا يكلِّفنا شيئا ..إنه النوم الخالي من الأحلام ذلك الذي يحدث ونحن مستيقظون ..لكن...
ريح خفيفة جداً تهبُّثم تَمرُّ،دائماً خفيفة جداًو أنا لا أعرف فيم أفكرو لا أسعى إلى أن أعرف.
XIIILightly, lightly, very lightly A very light wind passes, And it goes away just as lightly, And I don’t know what I’m thinking, Nor do I wish to know.
What's attacking me now is a direct humanitarianism ...
What matters is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness, To feel as if feeling were seeing, To think as if thinking were walking, And to remember, when death comes, that each day dies,...
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It’s our own concept – our own selves – that we love.
To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate som...
To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us will only be closer to not knowing us. That is how I’ve shaped my life, almost without thinking...
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
To be great, be entire:Of what is yours nothingexaggerate or excludeBe whole in each thing. Put all that you areInto the least you do
The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke them to grant themselves the category of artist. Taking the anxiety of...
The only intellectual attitude worthy of a superior creature is a feeling of calm, cool compassion for everything that is not himself.
The existence of laws for the association of ideas, as for all intellectual operations, insults our native indiscipline.
The divine fact of existing shouldn’t be surrendered to the satanic fact of coexisting.
Sou místico, mas só com o corpo. A minha alma é simples e não pensa.
Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.To be great, be whole;Exclude nothi...
Nothing irks me more than the vocabulary of social responsibility. The very word ‘duty’ is unpleasant to me, like an unwanted guest. But the terms ‘civic duty’, ‘solidarity’, ‘humanitarianism’ and oth...
In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing...