To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

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.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.