The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.