One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.