“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Live to the point of tears.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.

The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.

A true man hates no one.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

How shall a man judge what to do in such times?’