The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

The God that can be named is not God.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

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

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.