Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

One can fall in love and still hate.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

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.