We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

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

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.