I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.