The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth