Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

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