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

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

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.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

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

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.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.