If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
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.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Integrity has no need of rules.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more..
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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.
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.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it...
