It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life. . . . But what is that something?

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

How should men know what is coming to pass within them, when there are no words to grasp it? How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

When faith burns itself out, ’tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.