So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.