Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Renunciation is submission to time.

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.