All things are known to the soul.

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.