And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.
You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you fail, it means you were too lazy.
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It’s a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
Men who have greatness within them don’t go in for politics.
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.
There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.