I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.