The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.