“The fact that other people agree or disagree with you makes you neither right nor wrong. You will be right if your facts and your reasoning are correct.”

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

Everything you have experienced up till now is what you were born to learn about.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.