no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.