Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

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

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.