Nobody's rational. We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationalities are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.

Brilliant young people who were nevertheless silly with love-or youth, as if it made a difference.

No matter what they say they all intend to live Except the suicides? They intended to live, too. Suicide is a desperate attempt to get rid of unbearable agony.

Obstacles? Men like you don't have obstacles. Just steppingstones. Men like me? Yes, men like you. Just because I've never met any others. Just because no matt…

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.