To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

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.

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

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.