The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.