One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.