That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.