A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest