How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.