We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

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.