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.

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.

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

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.