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

One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

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.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

I'm drunk but truthful.

Every man needs a place to go to.

For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.