I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

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

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.