Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.