To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.