The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.