tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.