Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.