Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

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