Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the v ...

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Solitude: sweet absence of faces.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this hu ...

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prol ...