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

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Life should be lived to the point of tears

It is immoral not to tell.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.