The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.