There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.
I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere. " Go and tell that to a workman, an engineer!
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.
The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe.
To act well isn't an easy thing.
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.