Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

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

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.