Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

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

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.