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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.