You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.