The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.