Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.