The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
And what’s strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn’t help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
One can fall in love and still hate.
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I’ve never been able to start or finish anything.
If he’s honest, he’ll steal; if he’s human, he’ll murder; if he’s faithful, he’ll deceive.
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God’s will on earth.
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.