1. “The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.”
2. “A middling talent makes for a more serene life”
3. “It is easier to sell junk when you’re known than works of genius when you’re unknown.”
4. “The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.”
5. “Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.”
6. “Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.”
7. “Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.”
8. “The chief requirement for the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.”
9. “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.”
10. “Every book is a wreck of a perfect idea.”
11. “Freedom may be a value in politic, but it is not a value in morals.”
12. “Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!”
13. “Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.”
14. “Only lies and evil come from letting people off.”
15. “It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.”
16. “Anything that consoles is fake.”
17. “The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
18. “Language is a machine for making falsehoods.”
19. “Real worship involves waiting.”
20. “Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.”
21. “We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.”
22. “Man’s creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.”
23. “We can only learn to love by loving.”
24. “The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.”
25. “Most real relationships are involuntary.”
26. “We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. the great task in life is to find reality.”
27. “Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human communications.”
28. “The most interesting things ae always happening behind one.”
29. “Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of of intuitive understanding.”
30. “Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.”
