 To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. |
| To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. |
| We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. |
| Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. |
| Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. |
| Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. |
| The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. |
| There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other. |
| The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. |
| Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. |
| The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. |
| Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. |
| Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. |
| Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. |
| There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. |
| Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. |
| Law is born from despair of human nature. |
| Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. |
| Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. |
| Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. |
