And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.