Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

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

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

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.