“The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.”

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.

You know, I’m a pretty mellow guy. I’m pretty easy-going. I see everyone’s perspective.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, and doing as you say you would do.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.