During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision