Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.