Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.