A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.