I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.