I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

Of course$$$ not everything is unsayable in words$$$ only the living truth.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Hearing a crow with no mouth cry in the deep darkness of the night$$$ I feel a longing for my father before he was born.

Given the nature of spiders$$$ webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings$$$ so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps$$$ and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons$$$ Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that$$$ from age to age$$$ nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Generally speaking$$$ the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.