Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality.