Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.