We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

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