Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

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

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.