To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.
To be great, be entire:Of what is yours nothingexaggerate or excludeBe whole in each thing. Put all that you areInto the least you do
The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke them to grant themselves the category of artist. Taking the anxiety of...
The only intellectual attitude worthy of a superior creature is a feeling of calm, cool compassion for everything that is not himself.
The existence of laws for the association of ideas, as for all intellectual operations, insults our native indiscipline.
The divine fact of existing shouldn’t be surrendered to the satanic fact of coexisting.
Sou místico, mas só com o corpo. A minha alma é simples e não pensa.
Sim, eis o que os meus sentidos aprenderam sozinhos:— As cousas não têm significação: têm existência. As cousas são o único sentido oculto das cousas.
Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.To be great, be whole;Exclude nothi...
Nothing irks me more than the vocabulary of social responsibility. The very word ‘duty’ is unpleasant to me, like an unwanted guest. But the terms ‘civic duty’, ‘solidarity’, ‘humanitarianism’ and oth...
In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing...
I have all the conditions for happiness, save happiness. The conditions are detached from one another.
I go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, it’s nothing: it’s only the vision of the human animal who, without wanting, inherited Greek culture, Roman order, Christian morality, and a...
Every gesture is a dead dream.
But I am not perfect in my way of putting thingsBecause I lack the divine simplicityOf being only what I appear to be.
As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.
And now I’m sleepy, because I think – I don’t know why – that the meaning of it all is to sleep.
All of life’s unpleasant experiences – when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue – should be regarded as mere external accidents which can’t affect...
To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!