Don't forget to love yourself.

To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.