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.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

History is the science of people.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.