What is vanity but the longing to survive?

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

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

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.