The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

No artist tolerates reality.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.