"Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret both. Laugh at the world’s follies, you will regret it; weep over them, you will also regret …"

"The ethical individual is the one who chooses himself, and thereby chooses the universal."

"A man who cannot weep is a man who cannot laugh."

"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply: Create silence! Bring men to silence. The Word of God cannot be heard…"

"The task is to venture out into the deeper waters of existence, to discover oneself in the infinite."