You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to...
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everyb...
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolute...
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
There is only one class of men, the privileged class