“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”

“Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.”

“To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our natural point of departure Daseins everyday interpretation of the Self. In *saying* *I*, Dasein expresses itself about itself. It is not ne...”

“The I is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the I, nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts. Consciousness in itself (is) not so much a representationa...”

“But how does it come about that while the I think gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically, and has to fall back on the subjectthat is to say, something *s...”

“Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance”

“Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness....”

“It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my ...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”