but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

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

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.