Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

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

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

Man is a fugitive from nature.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

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.