Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

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

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.