Man is a fugitive from nature.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

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.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.