The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

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

Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days