If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.