No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

He who hates himself is not humble.

To hope is to contradict the future.

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.