The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Were I not possessed with a purpose beyond my own I had better be a ploughman than a philosopher; for the ploughman lives as long as the philosopher, eats more…

Well, well, go your way, Senor Don Juan. I prefer to be my own master and not the tool of any blundering universal force. I know that beauty is good to look at…

... men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these tw…

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

The first thing I remember about the world:is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides th…

'He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.'