In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.