I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.
Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn’t even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there’s no idea to which one doesn’t get acclimatized in time.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us.
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
Once one’s up against it, the precise manner of one’s death has obviously small importance.
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
The important thing isn’t the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it’s the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
This is the century of fear.
False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.
We are not certain, we are never certain.
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.