And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

All I know of morality I learned from football

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