Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.