If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.