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

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

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

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.