The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

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

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

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.