A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

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

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.