The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.