You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
I rebel; therefore I exist.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.
Find your happiness in yourself.
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Integrity needs no rules.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
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