There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

The will to be oneself is heroism

Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.