What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

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

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

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