what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.