I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.