Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.