Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it!
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"
My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.