To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.

I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.

"Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt." — This point in the Gita is my death sentence.

To be is to be cornered.

Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.

There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another.

Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.