For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.