Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.