Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

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

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.