The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.