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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the ...more

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What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

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Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more t...more

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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and r...more

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

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The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

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The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from oursel...more

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In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of vi...more

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Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning...more

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False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.

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Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meanin...more

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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The worl...more