-"... Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects he is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing." Jean-Paul Sartre

-"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul." Oscar Wilde

-"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time." Nietzsche

-"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." Paul Valery

-"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." Oscar Wilde

-"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." Nietzsche

-"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism." William James

-"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." René Descartes

-"When the passions become masters, they are vices."

-"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."

"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor." The Myth of Sisyphus, ch. 4 (1942)

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is." The Rebel, Introduction (1951)

"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves." The Rebel, part 3, "State Terrorism and Irrational Terror" (1951). Fyodor Dostoevsky

-"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man." Martin Heidegger

-"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you." Søren Kierkegaard