The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.

The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.