Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.