The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

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

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.