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.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

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

I am I plus my circumstances.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.