We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Existence is prior to essence.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese.