Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

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.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.