The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.

Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.