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

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.