Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.

The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.

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

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

[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.