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

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

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

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

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.