Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.