There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Fear is the start of wisdom.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.