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

I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.

Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

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.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual