All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.