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.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

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