Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

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

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

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

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.