It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

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.

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.