Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.