It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything – even pride.
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing – and he won’t be missed either.
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do – I can die.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face – that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.