He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.