 Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. |
| A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. |
| Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. |
| Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. |
| What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. |
