All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

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.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world