To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go beyond.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Life eludes logic.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.