Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.