No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.