Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.