We cannot put off living until we are ready.

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

Love is exclusivity, selection.

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

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.