Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

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

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.