It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
It takes a long time to grow young.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.