Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?