The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.