No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
