“A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.”

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

“They’re afraid because they have never accepted themselves. A community consisting exclusively of people afraid of the unknown in themselves! They all feel that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they’re following outdated commandments; neither their religions nor their morality, nothing is suited to what we need. For a century and more, Europe has done nothing but study and build factories! They know exactly how many grams of powder it takes to kill someone, but they don’t know how to pray to God, they don’t even know how to be contented for an hour at a time.”

““I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable manner.””

“Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.”

“Respect of parents curbs the spirit and restrains vices.”

“Dogmatics must be designed in this way. Above all, every science must vigorously lay hold of its own beginning and not live in complicated relations with other sciences. If dogmatics begins by wanting to explain sinfulness or by wanting to prove its actuality, no dogmatics will come out of it, but the entire existence of dogmatics will become problematic and vague.”

“Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.”

“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”

“I suddenly found myself disentangled from the demonic snares, I saw the world before me bright and joyous once more, I was no longer subject to anxiety attacks and heart palpitations that choked me. The spell was broken, I was no longer a lost soul in torment, I was once again a schoolboy as always.”

“Variant: That which is really beautiful has no need of anything. ”

“In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen.”

“The problem to giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health. It causes you to be overly attached to the superficial and the fake.”

“The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.”

“ Only a small percentage of wild mammal species ended up in happy marriages with humans. ”

“Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.”

“Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”

““To be loved, dear, to be comprehended, is the greatest of all joys; I pray that you may taste it!””

“ “Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.””

“First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.”

“And now that the hour of departure is appointed to me, this is the hope with which I depart, and not I only, but every man that believes that he has his mind purified.”

“ "We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."”

“A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“"The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not imagine what it looked like."”

“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.”

“Time does not tarry ever ... but change and growth is not in all things and places alike.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.”