Life's a journey, not a destination.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

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.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.