An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.