We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing..

The cry of equality pulls everyone down..

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge..

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too..

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do..

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future..

The most interesting things are always happening behind one..

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is..

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base..

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it..

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge..

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nih….

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is..

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I….

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck..

Being in love is an exhausting business..

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a….

When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally….

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder..

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love..