“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”

“Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.”

“Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.”

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

“In each of us spirit has become form, in each of us the created being suffers, in each of us a redeemer is crucified.”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”

“It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.”

“That which costs little is less valued.”

“Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.”

“To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.”

“Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.”

“You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you0 do?) ”

“Because there’s an infinite amount of things we can now see or know, there are also infinite number of ways we can discover that we don’t measure up.”

“ “Everywhere was in silence, like the velvet feet of death. And I was condemned to live; to live!””

“A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.”

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

“All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...”

“Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.”

“Therefore each of us must discover for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden—forbidden to him.”

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.'”

“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.”

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“ "They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."”

“Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”

“The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.”

“Let us cultivate our garden.”

“If generation were in a straight line only, and there were no compensation or circle in nature, no turn or return into one another, then you know that all things would at last have the same form and pass into the same state, and there would be no more generation of them.”

“The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. ”