A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.