Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.