How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.