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If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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