An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

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

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.