To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

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

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.