Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.