The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

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

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society