After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.