"Le Passant — Des almanachs pour l’année nouvelle? Le M. — Oui, monsieur. Le P. — Croyez-vous qu’elle sera heureuse, cette nouvelle année ?"

"The Dürer coat-of-arms is both an ideogram for “Gateway in Heaven” and a rebus for “I engrave the gateway”..."

"Up to this period it had been his custom to dine at a table d'hôte. But he now began to keep house himself..."

"At last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants."

"When he was asked what advantage he had ever derived from philosophy, he replied: “The advantage of being able to converse with myself"."

[Extracts] "Time makes even bronze grow old : but thy glory, Diogenes, all eternity will never destroy..."

"Men ... ought to make the search after wisdom their principal care ; for wisdom is the true nourishment of the mind." Descartes

"Life, to us, that means constantly transforming all that we are into light and flame..."

"C’est une bonne chose de vivre en France, c’est une éducation involontaire à la clarté."

"Après que l'expérience m'eut appris que tout ce qui arrive d'ordinaire dans la vie commune est vain et futile..."

[Letters] "O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy..."

"To pierce the mystery of the deep, it is sometimes necessary to regard the heights."

[Focus] "Thoth, the "excellent of understanding", observed and wrote down everything that happened and reported it to Ra every morning."

[Essay] "Birds are naturally the most joyful creatures in the world...."

"Our regeneration depends on an 'ultraphilosophy' that brings us closer to nature by exploring the entirety and the interior of things."

La lucidité extrême est-elle « le dernier degré de la conscience » ? Florilège de pensées sur la clairvoyance dans l'oeuvre d'Emil Cioran...

"The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone."

“Is illness a prerequisite for the deepest insights ? Kierkegaard, Nietzsche ? Hölderlin ?”

"In 1860, Dostoevsky began to formally write about his prison experience in a serial work he called Notes from a Dead House."

"La liberté n’est pour personne un don miraculeux tombant sans effort de la main des dieux."

[Quotations] "While the rebel is an antinomian, merely rejecting the established, the outlaw is motivated by a quest for autonomy."

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers..."

"So what can the anxiety-ridden person learn from the lilies ?"

"A Comparison of the Subject Matter and Thought of Montaigne's and Bacon's Essays "