You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.