What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

When you're meant to do something, life will have a way of giving you no option but follow the road you're meant to walk.

All of a sudden, my right hand was dead, unplugged, and my left was definitely not working right.

What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that

Am I complicated? Nah, I'm interesting. I just like having a good time.

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.