French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.