We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.