No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.