Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

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

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.