This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art whic….

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness..

The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of….

No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon our heads, we would n….

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world..

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal..

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be..

And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies….

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biolo….

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense..

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page..

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for thos….

As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being on….

As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it come….

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginin….

A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, eith….

For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get b….

Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over ….

While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this facult….

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight….

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference po….