My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.

Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.

One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.

Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.