The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.