In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
This is the century of fear.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
What is a rebel a man who says no.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
