No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Word - that invisible dagger.
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.
Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.
Pursued by our origins... we all are.
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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