The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.