Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
I'm drunk but truthful.
a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
I am too young and I've loved you too much.
Can a man of perception respect himself at all?
I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
I am crazy about mysterious things.
There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.
You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Reason is the slave of passion.
And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
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