4 months 2 weeks ago
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
4 months 2 weeks ago
The more you live, the less useful it seems to have lived.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.
4 months 2 weeks ago
The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.
4 months 2 weeks ago
God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.
4 months 2 weeks ago
My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.
4 months 2 weeks ago
To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Erosion of our being by our infirmities: the resulting void is filled by the presence of consciousness, what am I saying? — that void is consciousness itself.
4 months 2 weeks ago
There is no false sensation.
4 months 2 weeks ago
To think that so many have succeeded in dying!
4 months 2 weeks ago
We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
4 months 2 weeks ago
If instead of expanding you, putting you in a state of energetic euphoria, your ordeals depress and embitter you, you can be sure you have no spiritual vocation.
4 months 2 weeks ago
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Existing is plagiarism.
4 months 2 weeks ago
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
4 months 2 weeks ago
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.
4 months 2 weeks ago
I feel effective, competent, likely to do something positive only when I lie down and abandon myself to an interrogation without object or end.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!
4 months 2 weeks ago
Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
4 months 2 weeks ago
Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.
4 months 2 weeks ago
There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another.
4 months 2 weeks ago
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.
4 months 2 weeks ago
To be is to be cornered.
4 months 2 weeks ago
"Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt." — This point in the Gita is my death sentence.
4 months 2 weeks ago
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.
4 months 2 weeks ago
To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.
4 months 2 weeks ago
One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
4 months 2 weeks ago
As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.
4 months 2 weeks ago
How can you know if you are in the truth? The criterion is simple enough: if others make a vacuum around you, there is not a doubt in the world that you are closer to the essential than they are.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Get hold of yourself, be confident once more, don't forget that it is not given to just anyone to have idolized discouragement without succumbing to it.
4 months 2 weeks ago
The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.
4 months 2 weeks ago
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
4 months 2 weeks ago
To try curing someone of a "vice," of what is the deepest thing he has, is to attack his very being, and this is indeed how he himself understands it, since he will never forgive you for wanting him to destroy himself in your way and not his.
4 months 2 weeks ago
The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.
4 months 2 weeks ago
We are all of us in error, the humorists excepted. They alone have discerned, as though in jest, the inanity of all that is serious and even of all that is frivolous.
4 months 2 weeks ago
We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. — Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?
4 months 2 weeks ago
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Eternity is absence.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.
4 months 2 weeks ago
When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.
4 months 2 weeks ago
Everything is nothing, including the consciousness of nothing.
4 months 2 weeks ago
One disgust, then another — to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind...The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive.
4 months 2 weeks ago
After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
4 months 2 weeks ago
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
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