Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

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

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.