We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

One cannot be a part-time nihilist.

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.