I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.