Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.