There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.