Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
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.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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 wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.