Those who say they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear Him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.