487 quotes
Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
History and Utopia (1960)
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
History and Utopia (1960)
Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
Tears and Saints (1937)
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Since the only things we remember are humiliations and defeats, what is the use of all the rest?
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
History and Utopia (1960)
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
History and Utopia (1960)
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
History and Utopia (1960)
One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
The New Gods (1969)
I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
The Book of Delusions (1936)
To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.
The New Gods (1969)