Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. |
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true. |
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. |
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. |
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. |
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. |
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. |
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. |
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. |
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. |
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. |
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer. |
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight. |
There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight. |
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. |