This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

The free man is a warrior.