Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Life is a useless passion.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

I am myself and I am here.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Your judgement judges you and defines you

Existence is prior to essence.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person.