Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
God creates out of nothing. [...] but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
