When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.