A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.