To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.