Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

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

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.