All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.

I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.