The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
Fear is the start of wisdom.
While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.
The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.