The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

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.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.