The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.