These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.