Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

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.