I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
Beauty will save the world.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?
When reason fails, the devil helps!
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Without God all things are permitted.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
Existentialism isn’t so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn’t exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!