It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.