A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
Man is a mystery. if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
There is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other ‘higher’ ideas...derive from that idea alone.
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant…to smash things.