People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.