In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
One can run away from anything but oneself.
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.
Happy people are poor psychologists.
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable violence. With their optimistic view of the role of culture, they (the humanists) trivialize the terrifying, hardly solvable problems of mass hatred and of the great passionate psychoses of the human race.
Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love.
It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.
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