It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

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.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.