"Self-knowledge — the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching our…"

"Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of s…"

"When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the "meaning" of anything, particularly of whatever it i…"

"The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character — precise…"

"This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer …"

"In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy."

"Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!"

"Two enemies — the same man divided."

"We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything."

""Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?" — That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who i…"