"Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them."

"The individual is not free to choose his beliefs or his actions."

"One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one f…"

"A passion for the infinite is daily presented as a sign of moral distinction, when in fact it can only occur in disturbed minds which accord the status of a norm to the very disturbance from which the…"

"There is no society known where suicide does not occur."