The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.