No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
All art is quite useless.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
Who, being loved, is poor?
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.
It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.
Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.