"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy."

"I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."

"We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present."

Reblogged from The Antidote.

"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."

"Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?"

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"

"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."

"I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you."

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder’"

"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."

"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."