Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.