“how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!”
“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”
“One must live well to know what living is.”
“Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.”
“How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”
“To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.”