Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.