I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left ... th...e feeling that I could change the world only by being there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you have understood that nothing is that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved..., you are saved, and miserable forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this ...double impossibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not... quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or m...artyr, he is a monster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where... they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who believe in their truth--the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men--leave the earth behind them strewn... with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chance...s of saving himself by hell than by paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »