The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.