It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.