“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Happiness“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
Freedom“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Happiness“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
Best“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
History“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
Love“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
War“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
Freedom“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
Friendship“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.”
Good“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
Great“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
Change“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Motivational“Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
Art“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
Love“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
Happiness“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
Truth“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.”
Power“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
God“To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.”
Famous“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Happiness“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”
Experience