When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.