In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

I can, therefore I am.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.