"The present state of the world and the whole of life is a big consolation for me. I may not be great, but I'm not the only one who's a failure."

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

"The more a person is able to laugh, the more profound is his spirit."

"The dialectic of despair is this, that the despairing self is unable to get rid of itself."

"What the philosophers say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads 'Pressing Done Here.' If you were to take your clothes to be pressed, you would be foo…"