The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

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

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.