Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

Respectable people... What bastards!

A day is a collection of moments in the same way that life is a collection of experiences.

Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.

Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.