I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.