Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.