To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false