The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.