Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.