To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

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

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.