Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.