“General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right”

“Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?”

“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”

“He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.”

“A right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.”

“The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fact, a natural law, but an upsurge of the being which is its own nothingness of being.”

“But you looked much more like a fellow who had just realised that he has been living on ideas that don’t pay.”