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

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

I am I plus my circumstances.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.