In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.