All human activities are equivalent (for they all tend to sacrifice man in order that the self-cause may arise) and that all are on principle doomed to failure.
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Yes, Yes, I know. Those who see me rarely trust my word; I must look far too intelligent to keep it.
Words are loaded pistols.
When the rich fight the rich, it is the poor who die.
What do we mean here by “existence precedes essence”? We mean that man first exists: he materializes in the world, encounters himself, and only afterward defines himself.
What do I care for Zeus? Justice is a matter between men, and I need no god to teach me it.
We have so much difficulty imagining nothingness.
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
To fear? If the doom I brought on my life has taught me any thing, it is that I have nothing left to fear…
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
There are two kinds of poor – those who are poor in company and those who are poor alone. The first are the real poor, the others are the rich who’ve been unlucky.
