Individual consciousness is just sickness.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.