The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Morality, when formal, devours.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.