I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.