Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not...

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their...

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.