I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.