Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.