What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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.