Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.