Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.