While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.