Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

In the world's structure dream loosens individuality like a bad tooth.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well