Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

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

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.