Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

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

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.