Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

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

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

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

[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement.