You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love, he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the automatic rise and fall in the annual birthrate. When she spoke of the great figures in art, he traced the chain of borrowings that links these figures to one another.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.