Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.