A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.