It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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