Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.