To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.