Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
People's fates are simplified by their names.
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.