Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.