Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.