In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.