How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

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.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.