Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable.
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
Men die:and they are not happy.
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with oth...
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
We are not certain we are never certain.