We do not judge the people we love.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

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

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.