“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, ages, it is the rule.”

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”

“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”

“Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.”

“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”

“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

“The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”