Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.