“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”

“Happiness lies in dedicating oneself to an idea, the fruits of which are beneficial for others.”

“Originality is being different from oneself, not others.”

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

“I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself.”

“And if it is grievous to be doomed one day to cease to be, perhaps it would be more grievous still to go on being always oneself, and no more than oneself, without being able to be at the same time other, without being able to be at the same time everything else, without being able to be all.”

“Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.”

“Daberlohn: 'One must first go into oneself to be able to go out of oneself. One means of going out of oneself is, for me, the movie, man's machine for producing himself.”

“A painting is not a battle against other people, but against oneself.”

“Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.”