Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what.

The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.

I think every person and place is interesting, and there's an interesting story behind every door.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?