Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.