Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.