Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.