I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

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

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.