The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.