If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

If you know the why, you can live any how.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another