Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Respectable people... What bastards!

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.