The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.