What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Convictions are prisons.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.