This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.