The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?