Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

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

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.