Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.