In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Necessity is God's veil.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.