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

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

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.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

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