Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.