The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being "Paleolithic."

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one