That which does not destroy, strengthens.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.