Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.