In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.