Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.