The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

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

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.