There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

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

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being "Paleolithic."