Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.