Law is born from despair of human nature.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

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.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

The will to be oneself is heroism