But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person