Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing..

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life woul….

... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using….

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit..

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... A….

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the ac….

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ….

Have we not huddled in bunkers, while some premonition of tomorrow hung in the air and a comrade started singing? Oh, it felt so melancholy! And it w….

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both..

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do wh….

...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat wi….

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these peop….

and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand ….

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!.

It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, ….

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress….

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from ….

That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for d….

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in t….

Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are str….

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!.