To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

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.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.