They do not think, therefore they are not.

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.