When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.
emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
My pessimism has never been flabby.
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.