A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Society: an inferno of saviors!

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.