"The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wishes me to do; the point is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I can live and d…"

"The highest good that any man can attain is to be himself."

"Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy – to be someone who is brisk about their food and work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the no…"

"It is not a question of 'what' but of 'how.'"

"What a dreadful falsehood it is to admire the truth, instead of following it."