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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
[ Media ]
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
[ Individuality ]
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
[ Respectability ]
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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 other people.
[ Relationships ]
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
[ Suffering ]
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
[ Potential ]
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If there is sin against life, it consistsÂ… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
[ Sin ]
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
[ World ]
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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
[ Reality ]
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
[ Crime ]
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
[ Christianity ]
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
[ Solitude ]
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There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
[ Judgment ]
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
[ History ]
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
[ Cities ]
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
[ Forgiveness ]
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