"The tragic and the comic are the same, insofar as both are contradiction; but the tragic is the suffering contradiction, the comical the painless contradiction."

"The human race is a race of slaves, and it deserves to be so."

"The most tremendous energy of which human nature is capable is the agony of being a self."

"The greatest danger for man, in the whole of his life, is to lose himself, to lose his own self."

"The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [i…"