The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

Life is fired at us point blank.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

The will to be oneself is heroism

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.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.