Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.