Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.