My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.