The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

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

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.