One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.