I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

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.

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

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

To love another person is to help them love God.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.