The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident

To choose not to choose is still to act.

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

Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.