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

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

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

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.