An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.