“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.