The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.