My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

To love another person is to help them love God.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.