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

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.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

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.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.