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.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
Peace is the only goal worth struggling for.
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die.
In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.