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

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.