One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.