All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.