The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

We're going forward, but nothing changes.

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.