We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

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.

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

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.