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

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.