I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.