“My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it”

“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be”

“What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.”

“The real truths are those that can be invented”

“Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics”

“I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state”