What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

The strongest men are the most alone.

The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The greatest victory is defeat.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.