No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

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!

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.