Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.