“To have solely one thought, but it to be capable of destroy the universe”

“I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.”

“A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.”

“Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.”

“During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues—for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.”

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. “What will be the use of that?” he was asked. “To know this tune before dying.” If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence.”