Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.