There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

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

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.