Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

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

Introspection is always retrospection

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.