Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Sunlight is painting.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.