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.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.