“The fact that other people agree or disagree with you makes you neither right nor wrong. You will be right if your facts and your reasoning are correct.”

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Man has, through the richness of the intellectual quest, become more knowing, more clever and more skeptical. But we have not become more profound or more reverent. Nor have we found a way to put our learning in the context of the eternal.

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

Everything you have experienced up till now is what you were born to learn about.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.