Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.