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

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

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

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

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.