Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine