What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.