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

The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.