“We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.”

Only within metaphysics does logic exist.

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.

A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.

All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.

Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.

The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.

Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.

Mere anxiety is the source of everything.

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera’s ‘Stripped.’ That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for ‘Beautiful’ existed, so obviously I was affected.