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

No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.