“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many.

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Meaning and morality of one’s life come from within oneself.

Women make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.

I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.