He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

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.

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

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

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

I am I plus my circumstances.