Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.